IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH New India Assurance Co. Ltd. ......Appellant vs.

Badami Devi & ors. ......Respondents Date of Reserve: 06.03.2026 Pronounced on: 10.04.2026 Uploaded on:- 10.04.2026 Whether only the operative part of the judgment is pronounced? No Whether full judgment is pronounced? Yes CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE SUDEEPTI SHARMA Present: Mr. Vinod Gupta, Advocate for the appellant.

Mr. Ashwani Arora and Mr. Vipul Sharma, Advocates for respondent Nos. 1 and 2.

Mr. Harish Nain, A.A.G. Haryana ****

SUDEEPTI SHARMA J.

1. The present appeal has been preferred by the appellant-Insurance Company against the award dated 09.02.2017 passed by the learned Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Chandigarh in the claim petition filed under Section 166 and 140 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (for short, 'the Tribunal’) on the ground that the liability to pay compensation to the tune of Rs. 13,31,000/- along with interest @ 7.5% per annum has been wrongly fixed upon the appellant-Insurance Company and the compensation being on higher side.

BRIEF FACTS OF THE CASE

2. Brief facts of the case are that on 24.12.2014 at about 8:15 a.m., Rajinder Sharma @ Bintu Kumar, since decea